For this special report from the Cambridge House Silver Summit in Spokane, Washington,The Gold Report caught up with three silver investing experts: James Turk, chairman of GoldMoney; Andrew Kaip, vice president of Precious Metals & Mining at BMO Capital Markets; and Ian McAvity, a writer at Deliberations on World Markets. While the three didn't all agree on why silver acts the way it does, they all said that it belongs in some form in a diversified portfolio-but only for those who can handle...

Flooding across parts of northern North Dakota has shut down all Amtrak passenger rail service between St. Paul, Minn., and Spokane, Wash. – a distance of about 1350 miles -- including all service in the entire state of Montana.